Quotes from Dean Koontz

Tempe, where the unfortunately named Hohokam people ruled so long ago that

man who has one pet monkey might be viewed as charmingly eccentric. But a man who has made his home into a monkey house, with scores of chattering chimpanzees capering through the rooms, will have lost credibility with the mental-health authorities.

Robert Heinlein's The Star Beast was

Until they move on from this world, even the dead can know fear. You would think they have nothing to lose, but sometimes they are wretched with anxiety, not about what might lie Beyond, but about those whom they have left behind.

a magic egg swaddled in a nest, waiting for its mystery to hatch, and the night grew yet darker.

the worst of all miseries to afflict the human heart is loneliness.

Judge Sheila Draper-Cruxton.

Life you can evade; death you cannot.

In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and all things virtual are also malleable.

Well I'm not in Adams and Steichen's league. I like to think my work is art, but few galleries represent photos anymore, not like there were when those guys were hot. The mystique is gone, you know. Every Joe and Jane with a smartphone thinks they're a genius photographer.

In a nightstand drawer are a car key labeled with a license plate number

Ian Stonebridge

You represent them?

twenty, he's caught naked with a fifteen-year-old girl as he's teaching her how to self-inject DMT.

Poor Clares.

Axe is musicians' slang for instrument

You're probably just like my dad. You have this kind of pride. Honor, he called it. But these days, honor is for suckers, and that makes you angry.

Already he knew the future. He was making it.

smartphone with functions specific to this mission, and a radio-wave jammer.

she reacts to the impact not as if it might damage the vessel, but as if it is a thrill she'd happily pay for if this were a carnival ride.

We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers guarding against the darkness. You've taught me that we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain, and dull. If we love and allow ourselves to be loved . . . well, a person who loves is the most precious thing in the world, worth all the fortunes that ever were.

Abruptly the jet was shaken by turbulence, and Joanna slumped in the seat, the bracing effect of the memory undone as the aircraft dropped hundreds of feet. From other passengers came small cries and gasps of alarm

No. Let's just say they and I are in the same club. They're my kind. You can never be.

What does worry accomplish, except to breed more worry.